Race and the Cultural Industries

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5095-0531-9
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 342 g

Studies of race and media are dominated by textual approaches that explore the politics of representation. But there is little understanding of how and why representations of race in the media take the shape that they do. How, one might ask, is race created by cultural industries?

In this important new book, Anamik Saha encourages readers to focus on the production of representations of racial and ethnic minorities in film, television, music and the arts. His interdisciplinary approach combines critical media studies and media industries research with postcolonial studies and critical race perspectives to reveal how political economic forces and legacies of empire shape industrial cultural production and, in turn, media discourses around race.

Race and the Cultural Industries is required reading for students and scholars of media and cultural studies, as well as anyone interested in why historical representations of 'the Other' persist in the media and how they are to be challenged.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saha, Anamik

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturpolitik, Kulturmanagement
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Part 1: Framework
- Chapter 1: Race and the cultural industries
- Chapter 2: Approaching race and cultural production
- Part 2: Media, race and power
- Chapter 3: Capitalism, race and the ambivalence of commodification
- Chapter 4: ‘Diversity’ in media and cultural policy
- Part 3: The cultural politics of production
- Chapter 5: The racialisation of the cultural commodity
- Chapter 6: Enabling race-making in the cultural industries
- Chapter 7: Conclusion
- References
- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anamik Saha is a Lecturer in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London.